{"id":11304,"date":"2026-11-06T08:23:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/?p=11304"},"modified":"2026-11-06T08:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:23:59","slug":"gtco-buy-sell-or-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/gtco-buy-sell-or-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"GTCO: Buy, Sell or Hold?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"975\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-20.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-20.png 975w, https:\/\/ograsset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-20-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/ograsset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-20-768x458.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investors pay a premium for a fortress, and Guaranty Trust Holding Company has earned one. Customer loans are just 22% of deposits. The capital ratio was 34.9% in June, more than twice the regulatory minimum. Its return on equity, about 24%, would flatter any bank in London. The group also kept clear of the CBN forbearance that tied up its peers\u2019 dividends. Paying 1.3 times book value for a bank this sound is easy to justify.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/nairametrics.com\/2026\/11\/05\/gtco-buy-sell-or-hold\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investors pay a premium for a fortress, and Guaranty Trust Holding Company has earned one. Customer loans are just 22% of deposits. The capital ratio was 34.9% in June, more than twice the regulatory minimum. Its return on equity, about 24%, would flatter any bank in London. The group also kept clear of the CBN&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/gtco-buy-sell-or-hold\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fit-row"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-20.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11307,"href":"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304\/revisions\/11307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ograsset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}